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ASSESSING THE LINKAGES BETWEEN GLOBAL INDICATORS, THE SEEA & THE SDGS

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Steven King ([email protected])

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Objectives

18/02/2019ASSESSING THE LINKAGES BETWEEN GLOBAL INDICATORS, THE SEEA & THE SDGS

Work package under the NCA and ES Valuation Project*

▪ Which global and national indicators can be directly integrated into the SEEA to

support reporting on progress towards SDG Targets?

▪ Which global and national indicators have the potential to be generated using

accounting modules within the SEEA framework?

▪ What are the gaps in current indicator initiatives that could be filled using the

SEEA and existing global (and national) data?

▪ Which global and national indicators supported by the SEEA and relevant to

SDG Targets should be considered priorities for testing?

*https://seea.un.org/home/Natural%20Capital%20Accounting

https://seea.un.org/home/Natural Capital Accounting

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Global Indicator Initiatives


• Inter-Agency Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-

SDG)

• United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity

(UNCBD) Aichi Target Indicators

• United Nations Convention to Combat

Desertification (UNCCD) Indicators

• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate

Change (UNFCCC) Indicators

• Biodiversity Indicator Partnership (BIP) Indicators

• Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)

Indicators

• Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

(Sendai) indicators

• Ramsar Convention on wetlands (Ramsar) Indicators

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Rapid ‘Expert’ Assessment of Sets of Individual indicators


Relevant SEEA modules

▪ Land accounts – Physical measures

▪ Ecosystem extent accounts - Physical

▪ Ecosystem condition accounts - Physical

▪ Ecosystem services accounts (provisioning) – Physical or monetary

▪ Ecosystem services accounts (regulating and cultural) – Physical or monetary

▪ Physical environmental assets accounts (e.g., stocks of timber) – Physical or

monetary

▪ Thematic biodiversity accounts – Physical

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Structure of the analysis


Assign ‘Full’, ‘Partial’ of ‘None’ possibilities for alignment with SEEA

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Results by Global Indicator Initiative (314 Indicators)


13

26

21

SEEA to BIP Indicators Matches

Full Partial None

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Aggregated Results


41‘Full Possibilities’ for generation via the SEEA

▪ Indicators relevant to other initiatives:

SDG 15.3.1 – Proportion of degraded land (CBD; UNFCCC; UNCCD and Ramsar)

SDG 6.6.1 – Change in extent of water related ecosystems (CBD; Ramsar; BIP and IPBES)

SDG 15.1.1 – Proportion of forest area (CBD; UNFCCC; BIP and IPBES)

SDG 15.9.1 – Progress towards national targets in accordance with Aichi Target 2 (CBD)

SDG 6.3.1 – Proportion of waste water safely treated (Ramsar)

SDG 15.2.1 – Progress towards sustainable forest management (CBD and UNFCCC)

AT 5.5.2 – Natural habitat extent (UNFCCC)

AT 5.5.3 – Wetland extent (IPBES and Ramsar)

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1

12

2.57

2.5

3.5

7

5.5

Accounts to output indicator matches

Any Land Cover / Use / Ecosystem Extent

SEEA CF asset SEEA Water

Biodiversity Carbon

Ecosystem Condition Ecosystem Services

Wider analytical interests


Accounts, Gaps and Mainstreaming Opportunities

▪ Land cover / ecosystem extent accounts a priority

▪ Key Aichi Target indicator gaps relating to:

Trends in extent and condition of vulnerable ecosystems

Trends in restoration of ecosystems providing essential services

Trends in ecosystem resilience

▪ Opportunities for ecosystem mainstreaming indictors:

Reducing poverty (SDG Targets 1.4 and 1.5)

Ending hunger (SDG Targets 2.1, 2.3 and 2.4)

Building resilient (green) infrastructure (SDG Targets 9.1 and 9.4 )

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Next Steps


Assessment of Global Indicators

▪ Following the meeting we would be grateful if you could complete the comment form for the report circulated and return this by 22nd March

Develop methodology for indicators (this meeting)

▪ Develop a SEEA based methodology for SDG 6.6.1 and 15.3.1

▪ Develop a SEEA based methodology for 2 other indicators (Post 2020 focus)

Test Methodology with Pilot Countries (2019 / 2020)

▪ Refine methodology

▪ Capture lessons learned

THANK YOU!Steven King

Environmental Economist

[email protected]

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SEEA & The SDGs

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